Mar 08 Inventory - Transitions Daily Alcohol Recovery Readings Podcast

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This is Transitions Daily from March 8th, read by Kurt L. from Albuquerque, New Mexico,

USA. AA Thoughts for the Day. Inventory.

We continue to take personal inventory and continue to set right any new mistakes as

we go along. We vigorously commence this way of living as we cleaned up the past. We have

entered the world of the spirit. Our next function is to grow an understanding and effectiveness.

This is not an overnight matter. It should continue for our lifetime. Continue to look for selfishness,

dishonesty, resentment and fear. Alcoholics Anonymous Page 84

Not to consider. When I am too busy to pray, I am just too busy.

Acronyms. Odat. One day at a time.

Just for today. Focus from the three legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Washingtonian

Society, a movement among alcoholics which started in Baltimore a century ago, the 1850s, almost

discovered the answer to alcoholism. At first, the society was composed entirely of alcoholics

trying to help one another. The early members foresaw that they should dedicate themselves

to this one aim. In many respects, the Washingtonians were akin to AA. Their membership passed

the 500,000 mark. Had they stuck to their one goal, they might have found the full answer.

Instead, the Washingtonians permitted politicians and reformers, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic,

to use the society for their own purposes. Avalition of slavery, for example, was a story-political

issue then. Soon, Washingtonian speakers violently and publicly took sides on this question.

Maybe the society could have survived the abolition controversy, but it did not have a chance

from the moment it decided to reform all America's drinking habits. Some of the Washingtonians

became temperants, crusaders. Within a very few years, they had completely lost their effectiveness

in helping alcoholics and the society collapsed. Alcoholics anonymous, comes of age, pages 124,

125, daily reflections, turning it over. Every man and woman who has joined AA and intends to stick

has, without realizing it, made a beginning on step three. Isn't it true that in all matters

touching upon alcohol, each of them has decided to turn his or her life over to the care,

protection, and guidance of alcoholics anonymous. Any willing newcomer feels sure AA is the only

safe harbor for the foundering vessel he has become. Now, if this is not turning one's will and

life over to a new found providence, then what is? 12 steps and 12 traditions, page 35.

Submission to God was the first step to my recovery. I believe our fellowship seeks a spirituality

open to a new kinship with God. As I exert myself to follow the path of the steps, I sense a

freedom that gives me the ability to think for myself. My addiction confined me without any release

and hindered my ability to be released from my self confinement, but AA assures me of a way to go

forward. Mutual sharing, concern, and caring for others is our natural gift to each other,

and mine is strengthened as my attitude toward God changes. I learn to submit to God's will in my

life, to have self-respect, and to keep both these attitudes by giving away what I receive.

As Bill sees it, thousands of founders. While I thank God that I was privileged to be an early

member of AA, I honestly wish that the word founder could be eliminated from the AA vocabulary.

When you get right down to it, everyone who has done any amount of successful 12-step work

is bound to be the founder of a new life for other alcoholics. AA was not invented. Its

basics were brought to us through the experience and wisdom of many great friends. We simply borrowed

and adapted their ideas. Thankfully, we have accepted the devoted services of many non-alcoholics.

We owe our very lives to the men and women of medicine and religion, and speaking for Dr. Bob

and myself, I gratefully declare that it had not been for our wives, and in lowest, neither of us

could have lived to see AA's beginning. Number one, letter 1945. Number two, letter 1966. Number three,

letter 1966. Big book quote. Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the past.

We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out of our effort to live on self-will

and run the show ourselves. If we haven't the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember,

it was agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over alcohol. Alcoholics

anonymous into action, page 76. 24 hours a day, AA thought for the day. We must go to AA meetings

regularly. We must learn to think differently. We must change from alcoholic thinking to sober

thinking. We must reeducate our minds. We must try to help other alcoholics. We must cooperate

with God by spending at least as much time and energy on the AA program as we did on drinking.

We must follow the AA program to the best of our ability. Have I turned my alcoholic problem

over to God and am I cooperating with Him? Meditation for the day. The joy of true fellowship shall

be mine in full measure. I will revel in the joy of real fellowship. There will come back a

wonderful joy if I share in the fellowship now. Fellowship among spiritually minded people

is the embodiment of God's purpose for this world. To realize this will bring me a new life joy.

If I share in humanity's joy and travail a great blessing will be mine. I can truly live a life

not a birth but a heaven life here and now. Prayer for the day. I pray that I may be helped and

healed by true spiritual fellowship. I pray that I may sense his presence in spiritual fellowship

with his children. Hazelden Foundation PO Box 176 Center City, Minnesota 55012. This is Kurt.

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